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How retailers can profit from scanners

This paper investigates the impact of scanner data on retailers and the uses retailers have made or can yet make of this data. Although scanners are used in many different retailer and wholesaler environments, the focus here is on the development of...

Catalogue: Seminar 1986: Retail Strategies For Profit And Growth

Authors: Jan Willem Bol, Thomas W. Speh

June 4, 1986

Competitor analysis in defence of a brand leader

In the U.K. retail antibacterial market, Amoxil is brand leader. However, share varies considerably in market sub-segments as does the source of competition. The Market Research Department is a prime contributor to competitor analysis, all the more...

Catalogue: EPHMRA/ESOMAR Seminar 1985: Pharmaceutical Competitor Analysis

Author: Roger Western

February 27, 1985

Running an in-house system

The changes in computer technology have inevitably affected the ease with which the traditional marketing research data - IMS audits - can be manipulated in response to marketing enquiries. This in particular gave the marketing research departments'...

Catalogue: Seminar 1981: International Pharmaceutical Marketing Research

Author: Rita M. Sully

September 1, 1981

The different structure of veterinary practice

The material for this paper is based upon the many years of experience Market Investigations has in collecting and publishing data on the veterinary markets. This experience is principally based in Great Britain but more recently in Holland and...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: The Future Of The Animal Health Care Market

Author: Julian Harvey

November 24, 1976

Factor analysis

The paper shows how different versions of factor analysis applied to the same data can lead to different results. In contrast, factor analyses of data which differ can lead to the same results. These are two major limitations of the technique. Two...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1976: Research That Works For Today's Marketing Problems

Authors: Martin Alan Collins, Andrew S. C. Ehrenberg, Gerald J. Goodhardt

June 15, 1976

A marketer's view

As an integral part of Marketing Management, Marketing Research must certainly service the needs of the user, once these have been clearly defined. It would, in my view, be quite wrong, however, to let Market Research play a passive role in the...

Catalogue: Seminar 1976: International Market Research

Author: Alexander Christiaan Helfrich

Company: Shell Global

April 1, 1976

Quality in research

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Danielle Grena Delasnerie, Gerard Delamour

August 1, 1975

Quality in research (French)

The notion of quality takes importance in Research at various steps. To be persuaded of that, one must go back to the beginning of the Research executive's work, the initial contact with the client, until, and including the writing of the final...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Authors: Danielle Grena Delasnerie, Gerard Delamour

August 1, 1975

Interpretation of qualitative material

This paper, devoted to the interpretation of qualitative material, tries to examine the following issues: What do we mean by saying that something is "symbolic" of something else? What is the intrinsic logic of the intellectual process we call...

Catalogue: ESOMAR Congress 1975: Quality In Research

Author: David Wulf

August 1, 1975